In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, a French aristocrat, wrote a collection of essays titled Letters from an American Farmer. This work came from his own personal experience from settling on a farm in New York. Crevecoeur persuades his audience to come to America by expressing his gratifying tone as well as his excellent use of questions, striking parallelism, and astounding final sentence. Throughout his essay, Crevecoeur interrogated his audience by questioning one’s citizenship. Crevecoeur asked, “can that man call England or any other kingdom his country?” Crevecoeur answers this question with an affirmative “No!” This tactic allows for a smooth transition for Crevecoeur to begin to develop his idea of how a man cannot belong
